Sometimes living in the Upper Peninsula can be an earth-shattering experience. Especially when fissures appear in the ground without any explanation or apparent cause.
Those mystery fissures have been investigated by scientists now, and they say that it was actually an earth-shattering experience that caused them -- an earthquake.
Excerpt: A small earthquake caused a large crevice that appeared in the Stephenson area last week, according to a Michigan Technological University professor.
A magnitude 2 earthquake is the source behind a crevice which appeared Oct. 4 on property owned by Eileen Heider in Menominee Township, according to Wayne Pennington, chair of the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering Sciences at MTU.
Residents reported a loud boom between 8 and 9 a.m. Oct. 4 followed by the ground shaking for a few seconds. They later found a large crevice. The ground was heaved, causing trees in the area to lean. The occurrence was initially reported to Michigan State Police. Pennington visited the site of the crevice over the weekend.
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Source: Escanaba Daily Press
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